postgres95 install

1996-11-18 Thread kazem
Hi, I could finally install postgres95.1.0 in my box linux. For whose that are intresseted, here how did i do (sorry, my method appear to be barbar but it work). Important: THERE IS NO GUARANTIE IN MY METHOD. Here is my box package;

JDK and JDK

1996-11-18 Thread kazem
Hi, I install JDK in my box(linux Debian1.1). Here waht i did step by step. 1: netscape installation cd /usr/local tar xvzf netsape_3.tgz cd /usr/local/netscape mkdir java mkdir java/classes cp moz_30 java/classes For

Re: Corrupt kernel-source package?

1996-11-18 Thread Joe Emenaker
I had the same problem and the md5sum checks so it must be something else. Here is the result of my attempt: bash# dpkg -i kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb (Reading database ... 27768 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking kernel-source-2.0.23 (from kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb)

Crack and cops

1996-11-18 Thread Joe Emenaker
I didn't notice crack or cops listed in the Debian 1.1 package listing. I ftp'd crack and had trouble compiling it, discovered many others did, too; found the glitch and fixed it. So, it brings me to an interesting question: Is there a reason why cops and crack aren't in a package yet, other

xterm font in xfree86 3.2

1996-11-18 Thread Craig Sanders
Has the font used by xterm changed in the new xfree 3.2 release? I upgraded to 3.2 from bo the day before yesterday and have found that the nice solid font which xterm used to use has been replaced by a thin, spidery font which is only readable in Huge mode on my screen. I have the following in

Microsoft's round robin DNS?

1996-11-18 Thread Robert Nicholson
Has anybody seen how Microsoft implements their DNS? I'm a little confused because they return a connect refused and then expect to roll over to their next host. I'm guessing this is something that explorer knows about. Something that netscape did earlier with their browsers. But Netscape catches

Report: The Transname Patch

1996-11-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Has anyone heard of the Transname Patch for Linux? I downloaded it and am testing it now, and it seems to work very well! There is a version against kernel 2.0.25 on my WWW site that you can have. Transnames promises to greatly simplify management of cluster workstations and large networks

Re: XFree86 3.2 Initial Reports

1996-11-18 Thread Herbert Xu
Stephen Early wrote: One of the good things, in my opinion, about Debian is that it provides packages that are set up sensibly with 'normal' defaults. I don't want to start doing anything fancy just to look pretty; other distributions have tried this, and it occasionally causes confusion

Re: X is painful + GPLed solution

1996-11-18 Thread Herbert Xu
Bill Bumgarner wrote: # Have look at the kde project. I will-- and if it is as cool as you make it sound, I'll happily put together the debian packaging information... The problem with kde is that they use qt, which has a very restrictive license that makes it non-free software (in

Re: X is painful

1996-11-18 Thread Herbert Xu
Stephen Early wrote: Ah. The X Window System is not a user interface. It is a standard by which applications can drive displays and input devices. It provides mechanism, not policy. Sure. But I must remind you that we are concerned with developping Debian, not X per se. Using the above as

Re: Is .deb still better than .rpm?

1996-11-18 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Marco Mariani wrote: The installation procedure is *very* important, because a new Debian user should instantly get the feeling he's done the Right Thing :-) Has anyone given any thought to writing a very simple, separate installer for debian? It could contain a very

Re: X is painful

1996-11-18 Thread Bill Bumgarner
[claws out] [box on] I have to vent. OK, I cannot believe that after HOW MANY years of development, X windows is still such a completely inconsistent and painful user interface. # I think you forgot to include open, free, expandable, flexible, . . . Free, yes. Expandable--

Re: X is painful + GPLed solution

1996-11-18 Thread Bill Bumgarner
Oh well, scratch that one off the list of possible solutions to be investigated... I guess I'm back at square one; pining for GnuStep. b.bum Begin forwarded message: From agent Fri Nov 15 20: 35:17 1996 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:34:49 +1100 From: Herbert Xu [EMAIL

bo, rex?

1996-11-18 Thread Lawrence Chim
why there is bo in the ftp site? Is it the same as rex? lawrence, -- This message was distributed manually by [EMAIL PROTECTED] after the list initially failed to distribute it.

Re: Support for Page Scanners (ie. HP ScanJets)

1996-11-18 Thread Jose Manuel Cerqueira Esteves
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, GREENE KENNETH ADAM wrote: This is important, so any help is greatly appreciated (I am to make a recommendation as to a complete system to handle Web pages, E-Mail and networks for a small university, and If I can get their ScanJet to work, I probably could sell

Re: xrdb under xfree86 3.2

1996-11-18 Thread edwalter
On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Alex Romosan wrote: xrdb doesn't seem to work on a 486 which i recently upgraded to xfree86 3.2. when i run it i get this: /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb: cannot run '/lib/cpp -traditional -Dlinux -D__i386__ -D_POS IX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -DX_LOCALE [etc] from

Re: PPP-connection slowing down. Please help!

1996-11-18 Thread Bruce Perens
Did your PPP server on the other end change? Perhaps it isn't handling compressed packets correctly. Try adding -vj and -bsdcomp flags, and see if it improves. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was distributed manually by [EMAIL PROTECTED] after the list

Re: GnuStep Re: X is painful

1996-11-18 Thread David Engel
Bill Bumgarner writes: Now that I have an answer on the libc front (ie; 1.2 will ship with = 5.4.7), I'm going to reboot to Linux and produce 'official' 5.4.7 = compliant GCC 2.7.2.1 + GnuStep Threading Patches in short order. =20 BTW: For now, I'm using the built in MIT_POSIX_THREADS. Who

Re: Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than

1996-11-18 Thread Paul Christenson
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Fortran I/O problems

1996-11-18 Thread Arrigo Triulzi
Hello all, just to continue the Fortran saga: it looks suspiciously like the I/O library in f2c and g77 both don't do buffered I/O any longer. This differs from the standard behaviour on other platforms where the WRITE statement produces buffered I/O. Could this be a side-effect of the

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] Martin Konold: So [Qt] is really free and can be well used for gpled sw. Well, yes, for some definitions of the word free. Free is one of those words that everyone likes to define for themselves. For Debian, the relevant

Re: Support for Page Scanners (ie. HP ScanJets)

1996-11-18 Thread Christian Schwarz
I have a HP ScanJet 4C here and use it with Debian/Linux. It works great. You have to include the generic SCSI interface to the kernel and install the hpscanpbm package. I prefer xvscan, a patched xv version that allows scanning directly into xv. It's great! Note that you have to pay for this,

Re: Big IDE drive on old bios

1996-11-18 Thread David Frey
Paul Christenson writes: On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Stephen Fuqua wrote: I am in the process of building a debian machine for my office from surplus parts. Will I be able to get lilo to boot off the 1gig drive when I make a root partition smaller than 1023 cylinders? Can I be pretty sure that I

Re: setenv missing

1996-11-18 Thread David Frey
bash: setenv : command not found setenv is a C-shell builtin. I guess, that you have probably set a C-shell variant as your login in shell, but didn't wrote 'su -'. My suggestion: Change your login shell to bash (chsh -s /bin/bash) and try again. David -- David Frey [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dpkg-ftp problems (dselect and kernel source package)... (longish)

1996-11-18 Thread Richard Mortier
Assuming that this is the correct group to ask this type of question, could someone help with a couple of problems I'm having with Debian installation: First, dselect (which generally works very well), appears to have become broken somehow -- I can no longer change the Access method to use. If I

Re: PGP and MIME

1996-11-18 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
Lars Wirzenius writes: - linh (l.) dang: - What should I put in my .mailcap to make pgp handle - your application/pgp-signature as text. I use mailcrypt so I don't - want rmime invoke anything for pgp stuffs. - - I don't know understand .mailcap (I've never needed it), so I hope - someone

Re: X is painful

1996-11-18 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Early) wrote on 15.11.96 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Creating a user interface under X that is as good as NextStep is just a matter of getting every X application author to agree to adhere to the same policy. I wish you luck. Actually, this is a very good description of

hard disk recommendation

1996-11-18 Thread Lawrence Chim
I am looking for a 4GM SCSI harddisk. Which brand is better? I am currently using Quantum GP and it is very noisy. I looked at the Web and found that IBM is cheaper then Quantum, while seagate is the most expensive one (more than $200 over Quantum). lawrence, -- This message was distributed

Re: setenv missing

1996-11-18 Thread Paul Christenson
On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Neil Walker wrote: Can someone kindly point me in the right direction to solve a niggling problem, When I do a `su' command bash comes up with an error message, bash: setenv : command not found That's because setenv is built into csh/tcsh. Apparently, you are

Re: X11 bashing and freeness

1996-11-18 Thread Brian C. White
I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is delivered 'free for noncommercial use', but I don't see that as a significant difference. It's still a proprietary toolkit, which will keep the GNU

Re: Corrupt kernel-source package?

1996-11-18 Thread George Bonser
FWIW, I just tried to D/L the kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb from ftp.debian.org using dpkg-ftp and I got the same problem. There is something wrong with this package. It should, in my opinion, be removed from the ftp site if a replacement can not be made available soonest. In article [EMAIL

Another PPP Question :(

1996-11-18 Thread Kevin Cabral
The biggest problem since I've installed Debian 4 months ago, for me, has been the configuration of dial-up networking. I've installed all the appropriate packages, configured the kernel, and gone through the HOWTOs related to PPP and networking to setup such files as /etc/networks

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-18 Thread Herbert Xu
Martin Konold wrote: On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote: - Have look at the kde project. [ Stuff snipped ] I strongly doubt that KDE has the momentum to succeed. It's based on Qt, which is a proprietary standard. Granted the implementation is delivered 'free for

Re: xv requires libtiff3

1996-11-18 Thread Herbert Xu
Martin Konold wrote: On Fri, 15 Nov 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded to the most recent release of xv from the non-free section and it is giving me the dependency problem that it requires libtiff3. Yet, I can't find libtiff3. Am I looking in the wrong place or something?

rocat with debian

1996-11-18 Thread Daniel Stringfield
Are there any Debian users running rocat bbs software out there? If so.. please send me email direct! -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-18 Thread Larry 'Daffy' Daffner
Martin Konold writes: - In contrast to motif Qt is fully C++ OO. Buzzword bingo. Just because it's written in C++ doesn't mean it's better. - Qt comes with source. My mistake. I was under the impression that Qt was binary-only. Sorry. But the source distribution is a sham, since you can not

Hypermail (web-based mail archiver) for debian?

1996-11-18 Thread fabrizio carraro
Hello, Is there a version of Hypermail (the web-based mail archiver) for Debian? thanks fabrizio -- This message was distributed manually by [EMAIL PROTECTED] after the list initially failed to distribute it.

Re: g77 failure

1996-11-18 Thread David Engel
Hamish Moffatt writes: with it enabled. Ideally, the GCC package will have gcc with this enabled, and the GNAT package will not supply a gcc at all. Hopefully this will happen for the next GNAT package version, which is awaiting GNAT 3.06 (based on gcc 2.7.2.1). When I was maintaining gcc, I

kerneld and pppd and ip masquerading

1996-11-18 Thread Adam Heath
My friend owns to computers, one running linux, the other with win95. I setup /sbin/request-route to run pppd whenever he needs the internet from w95, and it works ok. Is there a way that he could run some kind of batch file or script on the Win95 machine to comunicate to linux to hang up the

kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb corrupted

1996-11-18 Thread Esa Turtiainen
Hi, I just retrieved kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb from a mirror in Sweden and from a mirror in Finland. Both were corrupted. I got it from subdirectory 'bo' and transfer went OK. The places are not mirrors of each other, the problem is likely in master. The error is: Unpacking

Dynamic Linking

1996-11-18 Thread GREENE KENNETH ADAM
I'm trying to get GCC to do dynamic linking (I'm new to Linux, was using DJGPP on a M$-DOG system). I can get it to do static linking, but not dynamic. when I do gcc -dynamic -o test test.o it generates a static linked ELF binary (according ot ldd). If this is not the appropriate place for

FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1996-11-18 Thread Sven Rudolph
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.29 1996/11/17 23:08:48 sr1 Exp sr1 $ 1. General Questions 1.1.Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ (

setenv

1996-11-18 Thread Joe Feenin
Can someone kindly point me in the right direction to solve a niggling problem, When I do a `su' command bash comes up with an error message, bash: setenv : command not found the setenv command is built into the csh shell to set environment variables, in bash the corresponding command is

IPFWADM and telnet

1996-11-18 Thread Adam Heath
I current connect to the Internet with PPPD, and all works well. I have compiled my kernel (2.0.24) with IP_MASQ enabled, and have verified that this works. Here is my question. Can it be setup, so that when someone telnets into the Linux box, instead of the request being handled there, it is

Re: Strange behavior of lpr+lpd

1996-11-18 Thread David Frey
On Sat, 16 Nov 96 23:04:57 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wrote a new filter and nothing come out of the printer. So I invoked the filter manually with the output redirected to /dev/lp1 and all worked fine. I also tried apsfilter and magicfilter but they did not function. So, I think the

dbackup

1996-11-18 Thread Esa Turtiainen
Hi, I just tested a package dbackup in experimental. It is exactly what I want: a list of files in my computer that are not a part of debian system. Is there another, more supported way to accomplish the same? Esa - Esa

kerneld and pppd and /sbin/request-route

1996-11-18 Thread Adam Heath
I have set kerneld to automatically run pppd through /sbin/request-route whenever I need the internet. The only problem is that I still get a timeout(or I just need to re-request the connection) from the kernel. I run FTP, then PPPD dials and connects, but FTP has timed-out. I get the same

network problems at list server

1996-11-18 Thread Bruce Perens
There seems to be a bad AlterNet link between master.debian.org and Pixar. This might mess up mailing list service until they get it working. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Crack and cops

1996-11-18 Thread Rob Browning
CoB SysAdmin (Joe Emenaker) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If the only impediment is that they need a maintainer Yes. , what do I need to do to enlist? (Probably check the FAQ first, huh? Duh!) See the Work Needing and Prospective Packages document. I'm not sure where it it kept, but it's

No CD Now what?

1996-11-18 Thread Joe Feenin
OK so I installed (or tried to install) Debian 1.1.4 from the CD set I picked up at the computer show today. One problem and it's a HUGE one. It doesn't see my CDROM. No matter what I try, no dice. Why is this? I have a Sony CDU-33a which should use the cdu31a driver and it works as such in

What files are need for accessing the internet ?

1996-11-18 Thread melanin2
Hi, I have a mac computer that displays a message that says missing ppp drivers when I try to access the internet with my aol software or wizzard (local internet provider) can you help me ? I can't afford the mac chareges for helping me. Can you tell me if there's a internet site I can

Re: XFree86 3.2 Initial Reports

1996-11-18 Thread Stephen Pitts
If you want the login screen to look pretty, just grab a copy of XBanner from http://chaos.fullerton.edu , the XBanner home page. A Debian package is available. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 on an Intel Pentium 150 Send

Re: UUCP lib/distribution mismatch

1996-11-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Carl Greco wrote: The uucp_1.06.1-2.deb that was included in the Debian 1.1-14 distribution is not compatible with libc. The executables (uucico, etc) are looking for libc.so.4 while this distribution comes with libc.so.5. Is there an updated compiled uucp packages

Re: network problems at list server

1996-11-18 Thread Mike Neuffer
On Sun, 17 Nov 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: There seems to be a bad AlterNet link between master.debian.org and Pixar. This might mess up mailing list service until they get it working. Actually it is worse then that UUNET seems to have severe problems at the moment. They confirmed 70% packet

Cannot install kernel module sbpcd with reveal CD drice

1996-11-18 Thread David Welton
Please excuse me if I am wrong in my assumption that this is the correct place to ask a question such as the following... I am really in a bind here. After an agonizing week of waiting, my new debian CD showed up and I got to work installing. Everything went smoothly untill I went to install

Re: bo, rex?

1996-11-18 Thread Guy Maor
Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: why there is bo in the ftp site? Is it the same as rex? If you look at the symlinks, you'll see that unstable points to bo and frozen points to rex. rex is the frozen 1.2 tree. Lots of packages are still going into it as bugs get fixed, but no new

Re: Big IDE drive on old bios

1996-11-18 Thread Bill Roman
David Frey wrote: Paul Christenson writes: On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Stephen Fuqua wrote: Will I be able to get lilo to boot off the 1gig drive when I make a root partition smaller than 1023 cylinders? [...] You only have to ensure that you turn off any translation (put in the true

Re: X is painful

1996-11-18 Thread Stuart Lamble
Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Early wrote: Creating a user interface under X that is as good as NextStep is just a matter of getting every X application author to agree to adhere to the same policy. I wish you luck. I agree that this is very diffcult. But the Debian developers

Please do not use Qt

1996-11-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Martin Konold writes: Qt comes with source. Any gpled sw can be distributed with soure or binary of Qt. No, I believe you are wrong (or at least, that the issue is _much_ more complicated than you suggest). The GPL requires: 2. [ source code distribution and modification ] ... b) You

Re: bo, rex?

1996-11-18 Thread Rob Browning
Lawrence Chim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: why there is bo in the ftp site? Is it the same as rex? bo is the new unstable release. rex was the previous unstable release that has gone into code freeze, and should become the next stable release in time. Right now: unstable -- bo frozen --

Re: setenv missing

1996-11-18 Thread Bjoern-Bernhard Schad
Hi Neil, Can someone kindly point me in the right direction to solve a niggling problem, When I do a `su' command bash comes up with an error message, bash: setenv : command not found I have a man page for setenv which refers to stdlib.h, this I have in,

Re: kernel version

1996-11-18 Thread Paul Seelig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Joe Feenin wrote: I have been told that the Debian distribution is based on the 2.x kernel version. Is this true? If so if I buy a recent release of a CDROM set say Informagics will it include this release? I desparately need an

Re: Deselect issues(was R: Is `.deb' still better than `.rpm'?)

1996-11-18 Thread fols9488
My only complaint is that it autoinstalls updated packages. There have been a number of times that I wanted to grab one new package via ftp install, and came up with 10 megs of updated packages. Here, here...I second this. I know you can confirm what to get but maybe there

Re: Hypermail (web-based mail archiver) for debian?

1996-11-18 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
Is there a version of Hypermail (the web-based mail archiver) for Debian? No. Having used Hypermail, I recommend mhonarc (hypermail dumped core when used on large archives on FreeBSD), which is packaged: Version: 1.2.3-2 Last modified: Mon Sep 23 09:19:52 1996 Architecture: i386 Maintainer:

Re: kernel version

1996-11-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 16 Nov 1996 20:22:06 EST Joe Feenin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have been told that the Debian distribution is based on the 2.x kernel version. Is this true? If so if I buy a recent release of a CDROM set say Informagics will it include this release? I desparately need an

Re: bo, rex?

1996-11-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 00:02:45 +1100 Lawrence Chim ([EMAIL PROTECTED] t.edu.au) wrote: why there is bo in the ftp site? Is it the same as rex? Rex, aka frozen, aka 1.2 is under code freeze. No new package is added there. Bo is the new development (unstable) version. Currently, most of the bo

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-18 Thread Lars Wirzenius
[ Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. ] Larry 'Daffy' Daffner: I still haven't seen a valid reason to support KDE/Qt. It looks better than Athena widgets. :-) (I use xaw95 myself. I haven't tried Qt or KDE, nor am I interested in with the current copyrights.) --

Re: kerneld and pppd and /sbin/request-route

1996-11-18 Thread Philippe Troin
On Sat, 17 Nov 2096 16:03:16 EST Adam Heath ([EMAIL PROTECTED] g) wrote: I have set kerneld to automatically run pppd through /sbin/request-route whenever I need the internet. The only problem is that I still get a timeout(or I just need to re-request the connection) from the kernel. I run

Ethernet card problems

1996-11-18 Thread Hakan Ardo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I have just installed he base debian system on a new box, but I can't get the networking to work. I am using the smc_ultra driver, and it finds the card alright, and repports no errors at boot time. According to the ifconfig package counters, all transmittet

What Debian packages do I need to grab to upgared to Xfree 3.2

1996-11-18 Thread Stan Brown
Could someone give me a complete list of the Debian packages neededto upgradeto XFree 3.2 ? I have compiled it and run it on my Debian machine, and it is a big win for my S3 card, but I would like to keep dpkgs database up to date on the state of my

Re: ldconfig warning : inconsistent soname??

1996-11-18 Thread Martin Konold
On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Philippe Troin wrote: ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtix.so.4.1b1 has inconsistent soname (libtix.so.4.1), skipping That's a bug in whatever package provides /usr/lib/libtix.so.4.1.b1. File a bug report. It's been fixed in tix41-4.1b1-4, and is uploaded to

Re: Support for Page Scanners (ie. HP ScanJets)

1996-11-18 Thread Jose Manuel Cerqueira Esteves
[NOTE: I am sending this again because for some strange reason only part of this message was distributed by the debian-user list...] On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, GREENE KENNETH ADAM wrote: This is important, so any help is greatly appreciated (I am to make a recommendation as to a complete

Re: IPFWADM and telnet

1996-11-18 Thread Remco van de Meent
Adam Heath wrote: |I current connect to the Internet with PPPD, and all works well. I have |compiled my kernel (2.0.24) with IP_MASQ enabled, and have verified that |this works. Here is my question. | |Can it be setup, so that when someone telnets into the Linux box, instead |of the request

xterm fails

1996-11-18 Thread Michael Harnois
After upgrading a number of packages from the unstable tree, including x 3.2, suddenly xterm would no longer run. It gives the error xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied. All my other X programs, including rxvt, work fine. Are there files that xterm opens or writes to that rxvt does not,

kernel-image-2.0.23_0 in Debian 1.1.14

1996-11-18 Thread Kevin Scott
I have just upgraded one machine to 1.1.14 and the 2.0.23 kernel, and am having some problems with the networking. In particular, running xdm on a remote server (using X -query host) seems to freeze, whereas it works OK when I boot up with the previous kernel version (2.0.6). Is this a problem

bigger network!

1996-11-18 Thread Dirk Luetjens
Hello again, thank to everybody how help me during the installation in a bigger network. It took me a few days to get everything to run, but now I hope I can work on my normal job again. Dirk -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

cfengine?

1996-11-18 Thread Dirk Luetjens
in cfengine all machines belong to several classes, e.g mail_server = ( tango ) mail_client = ( samba rumba ) home_server = ( samba ) ... In a cfengine-file one can use these classes to perfom any action. But when I want to perform the e.g. the following action copy: mail_server:: do

Re: bo, rex?

1996-11-18 Thread Brian C. White
why there is bo in the ftp site? Is it the same as rex? Rex has been frozen so only bug fixes are going there. It should be released as stable in a couple weeks. Bo is the new unstable tree. Brian

Re: X11 bashing

1996-11-18 Thread Brian C. White
Qt forbids anybody from modifying their source code. So what if they changed their license when they've gained enough momentum? As far as I understand it, you can release code with a new licence, but you cannot change the licence on released code. Thus, if they changed their licence we would

Re: Most Netscape problem

1996-11-18 Thread Brian C. White
Also, I missed the instructions on how to get Netscape working. I'm using 3.01, and its crapping out whenever it hits any Java. Can someone repost? Use the Debian package for Netscape 3.01. I beleive it's still in Incoming at the moment.

Re: Most Netscape problem

1996-11-18 Thread Rick Macdonald
Greg Smith wrote: I upgraded to many of the unstable packages the other day, and now most only works from the console. From a xterm window, I get Terminal not powerful enough for SLang This is my favorite viewer, so I would really like for it to work again. What's wrong? I think is is

Sources for rootdisk

1996-11-18 Thread Juan Cespedes
I think the subject says it all... I'm looking for the sources of the programs found on Debian rootdisks. Can anybody help me? Thanks, Juan Cespedes -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Report: The Transname Patch

1996-11-18 Thread Joey Hess
Has anyone heard of the Transname Patch for Linux? I downloaded it and am testing it now, and it seems to work very well! There is a version against kernel 2.0.25 on my WWW site that you can have. Yes, I've been using transname with debian for a couple of months. I have 2 diskless computers

Re: Cannot install kernel module sbpcd with reveal CD drice

1996-11-18 Thread Jim Pick
Please excuse me if I am wrong in my assumption that this is the correct place to ask a question such as the following... I am really in a bind here. After an agonizing week of waiting, my new debian CD showed up and I got to work installing. Everything went smoothly untill I went to

Re: g77 failure

1996-11-18 Thread Mark Eichin
The Ada package as shipped from NYU includes a replacement gcc binary for the matching release; I was going to avoid the problem by shipping it as ada-gcc instead of the redirected gcc (I didn't really expect 2.7.2.1 to come out, and 2.8 will have all the changes built in...) The GNAT package has

About the loop device

1996-11-18 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I'd love to handle dosemu's hdimage files without dosemu. What must I do to use a loop device with Debian? (Will cd /dev; mknod loopx b 7 x for x=0,...,7 be enough?) Should I have to recompile the kernel? If yes, will Debian 1.2 support loop device

radiusd

1996-11-18 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Is there a HOWTO or detailed info on how to setup radiusd? I tried a web search but it returns basically 1,000's of ASCEND and portmaster realted stuff... nothing really on how to setup and configure it. TIA Ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: ldconfig warning : inconsistent soname??

1996-11-18 Thread David Engel
Martin Konold writes: Similar problems here with: ldconfig: warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libncurses.so.1.9.9e has inconsistent soname ( libncurses.so.3.0), skipping What in the worlkd is ncurses doing in /usr/X11R6/lib? It's supposed to be in /lib. Please install the Debian version which is

Re: Dynamic Linking

1996-11-18 Thread David Engel
GREENE KENNETH ADAM writes: I'm trying to get GCC to do dynamic linking (I'm new to Linux, was using DJGPP on a M$-DOG system). I can get it to do static linking, but not dynamic. when I do gcc -dynamic -o test test.o it generates a static linked ELF binary (according ot ldd). Some of

Re: radiusd

1996-11-18 Thread Mike Taylor
On Mon, 18 Nov 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: Is there a HOWTO or detailed info on how to setup radiusd? I tried a web search but it returns basically 1,000's of ASCEND and portmaster realted stuff... nothing really on how to setup and configure it. Go to the livingston site at

Re: Routing Problems

1996-11-18 Thread Hakan Ardo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Kevin Traas wrote: Whenever I try viewing the current routing tables by typing route or netstat -r at the command prompt I only get the standard header - no information. The command just hangs and I must Ctrl-C to get out. I've

Alternative to xfontsel? (little off topic)

1996-11-18 Thread Rob Browning
I was wondering if there was some alternative in one of the debian packages to xfontsel that would show all the fonts installed in the server in a scrolling window. It's a real pain to have to go picking through the fonts one at a time. Thanks -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: postgres95 install

1996-11-18 Thread Craig Sanders
There is already a postgres95 package for debian: Package: postgres95 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: devel Maintainer: Emanuele Pucciarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 1.01-1 Depends: libc5 Conffiles: /var/lib/postgres95/pg_hba a7e0e850f5fc752d22b703c39b6eaf66

Switching from AcceleratedX to new xserver-svga killed meta.

1996-11-18 Thread Rob Browning
I just switched to xserver-svga from AcceleratedX, and everything wen't smoothly, except that Meta no longer works right in emacs. I can't say things like M-q and have the right thing happen. I thought uncommenting the /etc/X11/XF86Config line LeftAlt Meta would fix it, but it didn't

Re: Strange behavior of lpr+lpd

1996-11-18 Thread rac0043
You wrote: Maybe, but please post your filter(s) and the /etc/printcap file, so that we can examine the problem. This is my printcap: lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :if=/etc/filter.ps:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\

Re: X is painful

1996-11-18 Thread rdm
Stephen Early wrote: Creating a user interface under X that is as good as NextStep is just a matter of getting every X application author to agree to adhere to the same policy. I wish you luck. Herbert Xu wrote: I agree that this is very diffcult. But the Debian developers should do their

sendmail-8.[78].* bug \ {sendmail-8.8.3}

1996-11-18 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey Will there be a new sendmail ready to use for Debian 1.1, in short time, including the latest patches (8.8.3) ? So, will the easy-to-exploit-bug that was found last week be removed? // Remco van de Meent (nParago on IRC) // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www:

Re: Help installing debian Other packages

1996-11-18 Thread Wayne Richardson
Hi all, I have found out that I am having a problem downloading the file from the ftp site (sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/buzz/msdos-i386), but I don't know how to fix it. If I click on the file (using Netscape Navigator), I get the binary garbage written out to my screen. If I

Re: No CD Now what?

1996-11-18 Thread Bruce Perens
I'd better put a BIG note about this in the 1.2 installation document. Try modprobe cdu31a cdu31a_port=0x320 Note that it's cdu31a_port, not just cdu31a, when the driver is loaded from a module, as it is in the Debian kernel. This also works with the module installation tool in the installation

WinNT OS loader

1996-11-18 Thread Doug Redd
I have Win NT installed on one drive and Linux on another, with the Win NT drive being the default boot drive. I am currently using loadlin to boot linux, but I am wondering if there is a way to get the Win NT OS loader to load Linux. Does anyone know? \\\ \ Doug Redd \ [EMAIL

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